Preventable Bicycle Accidents Highlight Carelessness
A long report cites multiple fatalities and serious injuries from bicycle incidents across the United States, attributing most crashes to cyclist error. It urges safer riding practices, proper bike fitting, maintenance, adult supervision for children, and obedience to traffic laws, with safety resources from Bicycle Manufacturers Association of America and several agencies.
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Bicycle Manufacturers Association of America
Evel Knievel
Bicycle Manufacturing Association of America
15Th Street N.W
Washington
Food for America brings farm life to James Wood High School
Nearly 175 Frederick County fourth graders visit James Wood High School for the Food for America program hosted by the FFA to learn where food comes from. They tour beef and dairy cattle ewes lambs and farm machinery and will receive plants.
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Frederick County
James Wood High School
Gore
Gainesboro
Stonewall
Robert E. Ayler Junior High School
Preschool eye screening makes learning fun in Winchester
A free vision screening for preschoolers held April 15 in Winchester used the E game and a topsy turvy table to test visual acuity. Volunteers from local clubs guided children through the 20 foot read, with magic shoes aiding engagement. A second session is planned April 22 at Loudoun Street Mall 10 30 a m to 2 30 p m.
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Winchester
Frederick County Board of Supervisors
Loudoun Street Mall
Lioness Club
Virginia Society For the Prevention of Blindness
Bill Shendon
Frederick
James Wood FBLA Wins Big at State Conference
James Wood High School FBLA earns three firsts two seconds and a third at the Virginia FBLA State Conference in Richmond April 14 16. Glenn Slawson wins Arithmetic first place Mike Dunlap Economics first place Robin Tasker second for job description manual Yearbook first place and a state second for its activities exhibit Chapter named Honor Chapter. Twenty members and six advisors attended at John Marshall Hotel.
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James Wood High School
Future Business Leaders of America
FBLA
Richmond
Glenn Slawson
Donald E. Slawson
Ridge Road
Mike Dunlap
James Dunlap
Rt. 2
Robin Tasker
George W. Tasker
Rt. 5
James Wood
March of Dimes
John Marshall Hotel
Virginia
Secretary of the Interior
Cecil D. Andrus
America
San Francisco
Ladies Handicap Horseshoe League to Start Season
The Winchester Parks and Recreation Department hosts an organizational meeting at 7 30 PM in the War Memorial Building for a new season of the Ladies Handicap Horseshoe League. The program promotes fitness with fun competition and scores on 50 pitches with an 80 point handicap system for fairness.
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War Memorial Building
Winchester Parks and Recreation Department
Karen Grim
Clara Lowe
Winchester Ladies Handicap
Positive thinking as a tool for problem solving
Readers weigh the value of a positive mental attitude in approaching work-related problems. The piece argues positive thinking is not the solution but a framework enabling possibility thinking, encouraging exploration of options and renewed effort despite objections.
Effects of Fetal Monitoring Examined
The FDA will study children eight to ten years after fetal ultrasound exposure to assess long term health and development. Donald Kennedy told a Senate subcommittee there is no evidence of infant abnormalities but long term risks warrant caution as ultrasound use began in 1971.
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Washington
Food and Drug
Donald Kennedy
Kennedy
Senate Health
FDA
Year of Retirement Adds New Social Security Concept
A new year of retirement rule updates the annual earnings test for social security beneficiaries. In the year of retirement benefits use monthly limits rather than annual, with monthly caps of 334 for 65 plus and 270 under 65. Winchester office contact: 20 S. Cameron St. 667 1511. Philip E. Bettendorf is district manager.
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Nual
Winchester
S. Cameron St
Philip E. Bettendorf
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Times News Service
New York
Washington, D.C
Minneapolis
New Jersey
California
National Safety Council
Michigan Avenue
Chicago
Ill
Consumer Products Safety Commission
Eugene Sloan
Simon & Schuster
Jill Johnson
Timothy Burns
Winchester Optimist Club
Miss Johnson
Ross C. Johnson
Mr. Burns
Daniel R. Burns
Meade Drive
Purcellville
Chantilly
Herndon
Leesburg
Bob Bartley
Capitol Virginia
Food For America Project
Dletown
Bass Hoover
Robinson Memorial
FFA
Apple Pie Ridge
Senseny Road
Winchester Evening Star Living
Dr. Brown
P.O. Box
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